It, 202 7488001. If you are unsure, 202 7488002. You can also text us at 202 7488003, message us on twitter at cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. A harris it was from poll that was released on the 23rd of june. 58said that at the time, percent of respondents said the statues should remain, while 42 say they should be removed. A number of confederate monuments were torn down in cities across the United States recently. If you go to the u. S. News website this morning, an activity that took place yesterday in georgia this is reuters reporting a predominantly black group of heavily armed protesters stormed through a park in atlanta, calling for the removal of the confederate rock carving that the site that civil rights activist consider a monument to racism. Many were dressed in paramilitary style clothing and wearing face scarves, quietly parading down the sidewalk at the park. Supremacists have historically used Stone Mountain as a rallying spot of their own. Thats in stom
Youre taking that with a little bit different. Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the Public Square. And i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. That weve had enough time, weve ha
the only one that is truly sacred, the only truly sacred obligation we have is to prepare and equip those women and men we send into harm s way and care for them and their families when they return home, and when they don t. it s an obligation that unites americans, brings us together, make sure the women and men who were willing to lay down their lives for us in the very best to return. i want to acknowledge we are making progress in key areas, like bipartisan legislation advancing in congress to deliver healthcare services and benefits to veterans and the survivors impacted by toxic exposures. don t know how many americans and service members may have died because of what they are exposed to on the battlefield. toxic smoke from burn pits, burn pits that incinerated the waste of war, hazardous material, jet fuel, so much more. we have a duty to do right by them, and i m determined to make sure that our brave service families and members that served alongside them do not wait
texas with the latest. hello jeff. mike, present joe biden first lady joe biden are doing something many people this community and probably throughout this country are doing today. especially given what just happened a few days ago. they are going to church, they re going to mass as they pray. and trying to make sense of an unthinkable thing that happened. they are greeted by governor greg abbott is a bipartisan group of politicians. went over too robb elementary school where they paid their respects at the memorial site there for the people who died just a few days ago. he, along with first lady joe biden paid their respects and laid a wreath there. there joined by governor greg abbott as well as the mayor of uvalde, texas but we were told their protesters calling for governor abbott to take action on some sort of legislation that might help prevent future tragedies like this from occurring. once a church is over that is when president biden first lady are scheduled to spe
with the state s top law-enforcement official cult that delay quote the wrong decision. meantime present biden first lady jill biden will visit the devastated community tomorrow to console families and mourn the victims. jeff paul is live in uvalde with more. days of sadness now turning into anger for this community after law enforcement is admitting mistakes were made. one of those being the local on-site incident commander who was in charge at the time change the response from a mass shooting to a man who is barricaded inside the classroom for it as a result you had up to 19 officers for several minutes up to 45 minutes and beyond standing in the hallway trying to figure out a way to get into the classroom. authorities believe as the clock was ticking children were inside the school is that shooting was unfolding calling 911 their begging operators to police and police send police now. eventually border patrol agents showed up and got a master key to open up a classroom d